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A murder case without a murder: How a family’s life was turned upside down

29 May 2026, 17:23 PM
Chapainawabganj family says they spent around Tk 6 lakh fighting abduction and murder allegations
29 May 2026, 17:23 PM
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Condemned to death, entitled to 8 free cigarettes a day

28 May 2026, 20:13 PM
Colonial-era jail code provision still keeps nearly 16,000 cigarettes flowing daily to death row inmates across Bangladesh’s prisons
28 May 2026, 20:13 PM

Negligence fuels surge in gas-related fires

7 March 2026, 03:09 AM
A couple of hours before dawn, 32-year-old Pinky Akter woke up and went to the kitchen to prepare sehri. Her family members were asleep.
7 March 2026, 03:09 AM
Mohammadpur double murder investigation

The knife she brought and the murders that followed

10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
Suspect Ayesha told the family she had neither a phone nor an NID
10 December 2025, 14:21 PM
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‘We teach, but we can’t feed our children’

19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
Mohammad Ishak, who has been teaching at a madrasa in Sylhet for over 34 years, draws a monthly salary of only Tk 26,980 -- hardly enough to support his family and cover the educational expenses of his three children.
19 October 2025, 18:09 PM
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Recovery of Looted Firearms: Announcing rewards brings no fruition

4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
Despite the home ministry’s announcement of significant rewards 10 days ago, no actionable information has been provided to the police regarding the firearms looted during last year’s July uprising.
4 September 2025, 21:07 PM
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43 bodies a month recovered from rivers this year

29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
Bodies of a woman and a child were recovered from the Buriganga River on August 23. Autopsies initially found that they had been strangled before their bodies were dumped. A murder case was filed with Sadarghat River Police Station in this regard.
29 August 2025, 18:30 PM
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Cocaine haul raises transit route concerns

26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
A Guyanese national was arrested with around 8.6kg of cocaine at Dhaka airport yesterday, and officials said the drug was not meant for local use.
26 August 2025, 18:05 PM
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Prof Muntassir Mamoon wins battle against Covid-19

After winning the battle against Covid-19, noted historian Prof Muntassir Mamoon has said panicking does not help, rather he urged all to remain resilient during this time of crisis.
18 May 2020, 12:01 PM
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All’s well that ends well

Tasikul lost his mind after his seven-month pregnant wife tested Covid-19 positive.
15 May 2020, 18:00 PM
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'Shootout' continues amid covid-19 outbreak as 40 killed in March and April: ASK

Incidents of so-called shootouts continue unabated during the Covid-19 outbreak with at least 40 persons killed across the country in March and April, the two months in which the country was hit hard by the virus.
8 May 2020, 17:03 PM
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Burn unit not testing all deceased

The burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, dedicated to treating Covid-19 patients, has not been testing many who died there after exhibiting Covid-19-like symptoms.
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM
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Covid-19: Police hospital, DMP struggling to accommodate infected, quarantined

With more and more police personnel being infected with the highly contagious virus, the 250-bed police hospital in Dhaka is struggling to accommodate patients.
1 May 2020, 15:45 PM
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Street vendors selling PPE: Disaster waiting to happen

Many vendors, who are now jobless due to the ongoing countrywide shutdown, are engaging in the sale of PPE to make a living. Public health experts warn that the use of these PPE suits can be fatal for health and a source of Covid-19 infection.
28 April 2020, 12:08 PM
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‘30 doctors infected with Covid-19 daily on average last week’

On an average, nearly 30 doctors across the country have tested Covid-19 positive daily in last one week, according to a tally of Bangladesh Doctors Foundation (BDF), an organisation of physicians.
25 April 2020, 06:11 AM
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How strict self-isolation spared a coronavirus patient’s family

When a 38-year-old school from Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila started showing symptoms of coronavirus back in April 5, she immediately locked herself up in her room, fearing she was indeed infected.
23 April 2020, 15:03 PM
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Combating coronavirus: Bagerhat volunteers restoring faith in humanity

While some refuse to help their own family members out of fear of the coronavirus, others step up to take care of complete strangers. United under the banner of ‘Health Service Volunteers’, around 100 people took an oath recently to aid people infected with Covid-19, in Bagerhat Sadar and Kachua upazilas.
20 April 2020, 07:10 AM
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2yrs of Rajib’s Death: Neither justice, nor compensation

It has been exactly two years since college student Rajib Hossain died after losing a hand that got stuck between two buses racing in the city, but his family has neither got justice nor any compensation yet.
16 April 2020, 18:00 PM
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Healthcare Professionals: On the front line, true to their oath

Although there are criticisms over the role of some healthcare employees, many of them are giving it all on the frontline of the battle against coronavirus.
13 April 2020, 18:00 PM

Easing Overcrowding at Jails: Govt mulling release of petty criminals, long-term convicts

Apart from over 3,000 petty criminals, the governemnt is planning to release 1,413 inmates who were sentenced to life-term imprisonment and have alresdy served more than 20 years in jail, amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
11 April 2020, 18:00 PM
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Coronavirus outbreak: release of 1,413 convicts who served 20 years likely

Apart from over 3,000 petty criminals, the government is planning to release 1,413 inmates who were sentenced to life imprisonment and have already served more than 20 years in jail, amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
11 April 2020, 10:13 AM
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DMCH’s burn unit to be used for Covid-19 patients

The burn unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the capital is going to turned into a centre for treating Covid-19 patients amid the growing number of detections in the last couple of days.
10 April 2020, 14:03 PM
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A doctor on duty braving increased risk

She is a cardiac patient.
8 April 2020, 18:00 PM
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Despite increased risk, doctor continues undeterred

She is a cardiac patient. Yet, this 35-year-old doctor did not evade her duties -- knowing the added risks -- during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. She continues to work at Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital.
8 April 2020, 14:15 PM
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Six of a family infected with Covid-19

Six members of a family were infected with Covid-19 in the Sabujbagh area in Dhaka. The family includes an elderly couple, their two daughters and two granddaughters -- one two-and-half years old and the other only six months old, said Mahbub Alam, officer-in-charge of Sabujbagh Police Station.
5 April 2020, 14:43 PM
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Every breath was difficult

“No one can imagine how difficult just trying to breathe can be ... This experience can’t be explained … It felt like I returned from the jaws of death.”
4 April 2020, 18:00 PM
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Coming back from the jaws of death

Nurse recovering from Covid-19 recounts her ordeal
4 April 2020, 09:16 AM
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Their struggle is double

The life of visually-impaired Nizamul was already quite difficult, as his meagre income from his roadside insecticide shop in the city’s Bhasantek could barely provide for his wife and three children.
3 April 2020, 18:00 PM

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